Web, Internet and the Economy
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Years are measured in the intensity of our experience
Years aren’t measured in just months and days but in the intensity of our experience November 15th wasn’t quite a day like the others. Woken up in our New York City hotel room by an SMS alert at two in the morning, we learned that the police were evacuating Zuccotti Park. …
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Jimmy Wales Describes What Wikipedia is Really About
On October 26, I attended the IStrategy conference, which took place in Amsterdam. I was there to deliver a keynote on social media are ROI/ROE. Still, I must confess I also attended the conference to listen to Jimmy Wales who gave us an overview of his celebrated online encyclopaedia: Wikipedia.…
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IDC: 70% of future growth in emerging markets will come from Asia
Aisis will be driving growth in emerging markets, Adrian Ho from IDC declared during his “new technologies & future priorities for IT departments” presentation. He was replacing Sandra Ng who unfortunately couldn’t attend that meeting. IDC: 70% of future growth in emerging markets will come from Asia Asia is shaking…
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Thorniley updates us on the state of the global economy
What’s the state of the global economy? Daniel Thorniley (left) runs his own private business consultancy, but in his own words, he is not a “loser”. He has 235 Corporate clients even though he is on his own. He was able to acquire so many clients because he knew them…
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Me and the Web: matters of no consequence – The Little Prince
Our friends from Likeminds in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn’t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence. “Ha tutte le carte in regola per essere un artista”…
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Long Now Foundation: slower pace, better future … well maybe
Good morning, we are on Monday, the twenty-first of January zero two thousand and eight. No this isn’t a typo, but rather a sign that we are taking into account the fact that humanity still has a few millenniums to go through. Well… hopefully! [One may have doubts when one…
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A PowerPoint presentation to do away with Email bullying
One of my favourite subjects is the (mis)use of Email and bullying in the workplace. I have nothing against the tool per se, I’ve been using it for a long time, but I openly bear a grudge against those who are using and abusing this tool to make other people’s…
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A new file data management system to support transactional Websites
Clustrix is a start-up which devised a new file data management system to support highly transactional Websites. Paul Mikesell, CEO and co-founder of Clustrix explained that his aim was to help “Web businesses spend less time working on their infrastructure, and spend all their time trying to make their site better…
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8 lessons I have learnt from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs can teach us a few things. I summed it all up in 8 short lessons. I have just come back from a week spent in Silicon Valley, during which I was able to have meetings – as part of a press tour – with various start-ups in the areas…
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How teenagers – and adults – consume media – a critical look
The Morgan Stanley report entitled “media and the Internet, how teenagers consume media” is one of the most striking examples of instant information circulation on a global scale. Matthew Robson — a 15-year-old trainee who was asked to put together a report on how his peers were using the media…
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8 Tools For Online Reputation Management (ORM)
Managing one's online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a photograph on one's facebook profile in which he or she is holding a glass of champagne and assuming weird poses (and God knows I came across…
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Is your business in need of a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)?
Corporate strategy is the responsibility of the Board and mainly of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who must, among other things, imprint her vision on the organisation and define the strategy. She must build the DNA of the company and indicate in which course she wants to take it. This…
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